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55 Popular Websites and Blogs that Accept Guest Posts

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When it comes to website or blog promotion, there are many practices can be used to create your site awareness and get more traffic. Some of the common ways include blog commenting, guest posting, social media activities, RSS submissions, link exchange and many more. Today we will be focusing on guest blogging which can be seen on many popular blogs. Whether you agree or not, guest blogging is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways of getting yourself noticed and driving traffic towards your blog site. Being a guest blogger, you’ll enjoy many benefits if your guest post is accepted and published on high traffic blog. Every visitor reading your post will find out about you as a personal and your knowledge of the subject.

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In most of the cases, guest blogs will include a small bio paragraph about you, the guest blogger and a link to your own site at the bottom of the page. This will not only drive traffic to your website but also give you a tremendous boost in your SEO strategy. Read more…

15 Best Tools to Check Duplicate Content Copied from Your Website

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As a website owner and blogger, we don’t want to see our hard-worked online content being copied and published on some other websites. Imagine if you’ve spent several days and conducted intensive research to publish your article online, and you find out it is copy-pasted elsewhere by some shameless scrappers and autobloggers without getting your consent. Doesn’t it hurt your heart? To fight for this serious issue of plagiarism, today we’ve gathered 15 useful duplicate content checkers that you can use to find out if your content is published elsewhere and to detect duplicate content on your own website.

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If you are accepting guest posts or hiring paid writers for your blog, these tools will help you check if the content they provide is copied from elsewhere. All in all, it’s important to find out any duplicate content copied from your website as it will not only ruin the reputation of your website but also affect your search engine ranking. Read more…

Best 25 SEO Plugins for WordPress Blogs

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If you are running a WordPress blog, you should know how important it is to optimize your blog so that Google and other search engines can discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. Fortunately there are myriad of WordPress plugins developed for search engine optimization (SEO). Most of them are available on the WordPress repository where you can download for free.

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With these SEO plugins you can easily choose the right tags, instruct search engine robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and much more. Now the question is which SEO plugin can effectively optimize your blog? To help you choose the right plugin, following are 25 popular SEO plugins you can use to increase your site ranking on the search results. Read more…

Top 35 Useful WordPress Plugins to Improve Your Comment Section

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Most of the bloggers generally agree that post’s content is everything. However comments are often just as important, they create valuable discussions which are considered the secondary content of your post. If you are WordPress user, you should know that the default comment box is too simple and uninspiring. Fortunately we can enhance it using various of plugins. Here we’ve compiled a list of 35 useful plugins for WordPress comments helping you get rid of spam, improve the appearance of comments, and increase your engagement and interaction with visitors. Check them out!

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How to Find Out FeedBurner Subscriber Feed Counts of Any Websites and Blogs

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FeedBurner provides a feature called FeedCount that allows users to promote their feeds by displaying the subscriber figures. However some bloggers prefer to disable this feed counter (also known as feed chicklet) due to their own reasons. Well if you are curious about one blog’s FeedBurner subscriber figures but you can’t find any feed chicklet on it, here’s the solution.

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22 FeedBurner Tips and Tricks to Get More Subscribers

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FeedBurner is one of the best web feed management provider that lets you publish a feed for your website, blog or podcast. This free and easy-to-use service provides feed statistics, feed optimization features, feed publication options and more. In this article, we would like to show you some of the best FeedBurner tips and tricks you can use to get more subscribers and take your website or blog to the next level!

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Best Free SEO Tools and Services for Your Blog or Website (Top 25)

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website in organic search results for a specified set of key phrases. In general, the higher a site ranks in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. When it comes to optimizing a personal website or blog for the search engines, some people will make use of backlinks, anchor text, keywords, etc. or pay a SEO company thousand of dollars to get it done. If you are new to web development and can’t afford to pay for SEO, why don’t you try some free tools and services that are available online for web analysis?

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In this article, we are going to introduce you some of the best and most useful SEO tools that you can use to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher for free! Enjoy. Read more…

How to Check the Web Hosting Service Used by Any Websites

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Have you ever wondered who is hosting those famous and high traffic websites like The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and GigaOM? Simply use one of the web tools below and enter a website address, these tools will return the name of the web host provider that’s hosting that site. If you are doing research to determine the suitable web host provider for your blog, these tools will help you making the right decision. Let’s check them out!

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How to Compare Your FeedBurner Feed Subscriber Counts with Other Websites

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If you are web developer or blogger, Alexa.com perhaps is one of your frequently visited sites for checking your site’s world ranking and comparing your traffic statistics with other websites. What about FeedBurner subscription? Have you ever thought of comparing your FeedBurner subscriber numbers with other websites or blogs? Well there is one interesting web service called Feed Compare that allows you to do the comparison up to 4 websites. You can also generate a chart from 1 month view to 24 months and click & drag to zoom in the chart.

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Top 14 of Best WordPress Caching Plugins to Speed Up Your Blog

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What can you do if you found that your WordPress blog getting sluggish? If you search the web for solution, surely you will get tons of suggestions and recommendations that may be confusing and you probably have no idea which is the good one to solve your problem. In fact, slow loading webpage is a very common issue faced by most of the WordPress users, however this is something should not be ignored as it will cause visitors to leave your site and go somewhere else, leaving your site without sales, low user subscriptions and poor search engine ranking.

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One of the great ways for speeding up your blog is exercise caching and fortunately the WordPress community has a lot of caching plugins to choose from. So lets us round up some of the best caching plugins to make your web site load faster! Read more…

Important Tips on How to Choose the Best Blog Host for Blogging

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If you are interested to start a blog, one of the most common questions that will come to your mind is how to decide which blog host is the best for you? But before that, you should define your goals for your blog then research the various blog hosts and blogging platforms to determine the one that best suits your needs. Although it makes sense to start with the basics, but it will be good to make sure that the host you choose today will scale to serve the blog you want to build in the future. Here you’ll be given 8 important tips to choosing a blog host and we hope that you will find them useful.

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Top 12 of Best Sites to Check Website Rankings and Traffics

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Are you curious about how your favorite website ranks? Which web tool do you use to check your website or blog ranking? Undoubtedly, Alexa is one of the most used web tools for checking website ranking and traffic although their figures and statistics are not absolutely accurate. However, those information can be useful for cross-referencing and to understand a site better. In this post, we will show you 12 popular sites or web tools that you can use to check rankings, traffics, unique visitors, top keywords and demographic information about any website.

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How to Add or Integrate Google+ Plus into Your WordPress Site

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Do you think that Google+ will be Facebook or Twitter “killer”? Well we will know the answer when the time comes. But what we can tell you now is that Google+ is definitely a social media that you can’t afford to ignore especially if you are blogger, web developer or content producer. Today’s article is exclusively written for WordPress users as we would like to introduce 2 methods of adding Google+ to WordPress blog or website. So don’t miss it!

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How to Display Post Excerpt and Post Summary on Your WordPress Blog

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By default, WordPress displays full post on the homepage and category pages. However, some users prefer their posts to be published in the form of excerpt (partial post), making their blogs look more decent. In fact, there are some benefits of publishing posts in excerpt form. Imaging if your visitors load a page which has lots of images, it can significantly impact your page load time. By using excerpt, you can simply show a short description of the article and let visitors view the post on single post page.

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Other than that, excerpt also helps to increase page view count. Imaging if you don’t use the excerpt, your visitors will just read the post on the homepage or category pages. By adding it this way, they will go to the original post. That is 2 page views instead of 1. Without further ado, let us show you 2 simple tutorials on how to display post excerpts in your WordPress blog. Read more…

nrelate’s Related Content Plugin and Most Popular Content Plugin for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Other Platforms

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How can you increase your website or blog’s traffic and generate more revenue? In our previous post titled: Best Thumbnail Related Posts Plugins for WordPress, we’ve emphasized the importance of having thumbnail related posts plugin set up on your WordPress blog. Today we would like to introduce WordPress users another two great related posts plugins called nrelate Related Content and nrelate Popular Content.

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Oops, are you using other blogging platforms? No worries, nrelate is currently also available on Blogger and Tumblr. If you are on a different platform or a custom site, contact nrelate and let’s see if they can get you up and running! Read more…